Improvement in fare-boxes



.UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

AARON H. BUGHER, OF OINOINNATI, OHIO.

IMPROVEMENT IN FARE-Boxes.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 49,080, dated August 1, 1865.

To all whom t may concern.-

Be it known that I, AARON H. BUGHER, of Cincinnati, Hamilton county, Ohio, have invented a new and useful checking device for the prevention of fraud in the collection of lares, tolls, or other payments; and I do hereby declare the i'ollowingto be a t'ull, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawing, making part of this specification.

My invention relates to a system of checks, operated jointly by the collector and the person paying the fare, toll, fee, or other money, whereby a precise register or record, beyond the control of the collector, is preserved of each and every payment.

Figure l is a perspective View of a box or case embodying the principal features of my invention.

A is a box or ease. having a lid, B, hose l loch is in the exclusive custody ot' the supercompartments and appropriate apertures may be provided in the box. An additional safeguard may be afforded by providing a shutter or escutcheon, J, to the key-hole, which escutcheon, when closed, passes under a curb, L coincident with whose center the said escutcheon is provided with a flaring stud or button, M. The key-hole being closed by the escutcheon, a wax seal may be run and stamped into the space within thc curb, and will be securely held in place by the button lVI. A still t'urlher safeguard may consist in ijxing athwart the 'aperture D, on its under side, a yielding and resilient tongue, N, which, being momentarily deflected by the passage into the box of a counter, will return with a spring and strike a bell, O, so as to enable the collector as Well as the payer, and even any bystander, to know Whether a counter has actually entered the box.

The box may becoinposed of tin, wood, gottapercha, leather, or other suitable material, and may be adapted for use with coin or other money instead of counters.

P is a hook attached to the rear of the box for the purpose of suspending the same to a staple driven into a Wall or side of a car, 85o., or to a band upon the conductors person.

I claim herein as new and of my invention- In locks, a key-hole guard or escutcheon, J, provided with a flaring stud or button, M, adapted to operate, in connection with the curb L, for the reception of a wax seal, arranged as herein set forth.

In testimony of which invention I hereunto set my hand.

A. H. BUGHER.

Witnesses:

GEO. H. PENDLETON, WASHINGTON MCLEAN. 

